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| Aug. 2. |
99. J. Scrope to the Earl of Essex, Ranger of Hyde Park.
“The King's ministers being very much incommoded by the dustiness of the new road leading through Hyde Park, now they are obliged to attend His Majesty at Kensington,” it is the King's pleasure that the said whole road be kept constantly watered instead of the Ring in the said park. “The money allowed for watering the said Ring with 200l. more is meant to defray all charges and expenses attending this service.”
[Letter Book XIX. p. 477, 480.] |
Aug. 8.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
100. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Order for the issue, out of supplies anno 1738, of 97,250l. for two months' subsistence to Guards and Garrisons, Minorca, Gibraltar and Plantations from 1738, August 25, to October 24.
The memorial of the Paymaster General of the Forces, enclosing Sir Joseph Eyles's proposal for remitting subsistence money for the forces to Minorca and Gibraltar read and agreed to as follows, the rates of exchange being certified to be as usual, viz.:—19,600 dollars for Minorca, payable at gold in sight, at 55d. per dollar; 18,700 dollars for Gibraltar, payable in gold at sight, at 54½d. per dollar.
“Send the petition of the executors of Johana, late Johana Oakes, deceased, relict of Henry Player, Esq., touching a lease of lands heretofore purchased for fortifications at Portsmouth dock and harbour to the Surveyor General to hear the parties concerned thereupon, and to stay all proceedings towards passing any other lease till his report is made and their Lordships' directions signified thereupon, and let Mr. Legg, the Chancellor's secretary, be acquainted the Exchequer lease [sic for Seal] is not to be put to any other lease of the premises till the said report shall be read by their Lordships and further orders thereupon.”
Order for the issue of 3,000l. out of the Civil List Funds to the Privy Purse for 1738, August.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 87; Letter Book XIX. p. 478.] |
| Aug. 8. |
101. Report to the Treasury from the Taxes Commissioners on the state of the accounts of arrears, &c., of 13 Receivers General of land tax, detailed, respited for the backwardness of their accounts. Observe in general that when the tax was collected quarterly the Receivers General could make speedier returns of their money by reason of the corresponding supply of bills, whereas at present the amount coming to their hands at once is too We and at too long intervals for remitters of money to stay for with their bills. 2 pages.
Appending:—(a.-e.) Five letters to said Commissioners from James Gee, Receiver General for York, dated from Bishop Burton, respectively 1738, June 25, July 1, 7, 9 and 18, concerning his accounts. 6 pages. Enclosing (c.) (I.) a letter of John Dixon to said Gee, dated Lutist, 1738, July 5, concerning remittances of balances. 3 pages.
(f.) Robert Clayton, Receiver for Hereford, to said Commissioners, dated Hereford, 1738, August 7, concerning his arrears. ½ page.
(g.) Johnson Gildart, same for Lancaster, to Francis Sorell, Secretary to said Commissioners, dated Liverpool, 1738, July 19, concerning same. 1½ pages.
(h.) Richard Lane, same for Worcester, to the Taxes Commissioners, London, dated Worcester, May 11, 1738, concerning same. 1 page.
Enclosing (h.) (I.) An account of his said arrears of land tax for the county and city of Worcester for 1737. 1 sheet.
(i.-j.) Two other papers of partial statements, respectively of payments and arrears on land tax and house duties for said county and city 1737, the second paper being dated 1738, August 8. 3 half pages.
(k.-o.) Five letters to the said Taxes Commissioners, London, from the acting Commissioners of land tax for various divisions of the county of Worcester, under the receiver generalship of Richard Lane, concerning the arrears of their divisions generally and expressing the general dislike had of said Receiver General Lane, viz.:—
(k.) The acting Commissioners of the middle and lower division of Oswaldslow Hundred, dated Worcester, 1738, July 22. 1 page.
(l.) Same for Bromsgrove division, dated Droitwich, July 25. 1 page.
(m.) Same for the lower division of Pershore Hundred, dated Upton on Severn, July 28. 1 page.
(n.) Same for the upper division of Pershore Hundred, dated August 3. 1 page.
(o.) Same for the Hundred of Doddingtree, dated Worcester, 1738, August 5. 1 page.
(p.) James Bull, Receiver General for North Wales, to Francis Sorrell for the Taxes Commissioners, dated Kington, August 1, concerning his arrears. ½ page.
(q.) John Phillips, same for South Wales, to same for same, dated Carmarthen, July 3, 1738, concerning same. 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVIII. No. 36.] |
Aug. 11.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
102. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Orders for the following issues out of the Civil List Funds: — |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
To the Master of the Robes for 1738, Lady Day quarter |
580 |
14 |
3 |
|
To the Duke of Montagu |
300 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Duke of Dorset |
660 |
0 |
0 |
|
To Lord Townshend |
175 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Duke of Kent |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Duke of St. Alban's |
593 |
2 |
6 |
|
To the Earl of Wilmington |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
To Lord Cornwallis |
416 |
13 |
4 |
|
To the Earl of Essex |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Earl of Godolphin |
743 |
15 |
0 |
|
To the Duke of Grafton |
750 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Clerks of the Council |
350 |
0 |
0 |
Order for a warrant for Earl Waldegrave's ordinary as ambassador in France to 1738, Lady Day.
The memorial of the Paymaster General of the Forces of the 2nd instant, enclosing Sir Joseph Evles's proposal for remitting the subsistence money to Minorca and Gibraltar for 1738, August 25, to October 24, read and agreed to as follows, the rates of exchange being certified to be as usual, viz.:—19,600 dollars for Minorca, payable in gold at sight, at 55d. per dollar; 18,700 dollars for Gibraltar, payable in gold at sight, at 54½d. per dollar.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII p. 88.] |
[Before
1738,
Aug. 15.] |
103. Memorial to the Treasury from Henry McCulloch (“Mc Culloh”), concerning the frauds, encroachments and abuses put upon the Crown in the American Colonies. North and South Carolina are now in a confused, uncertain and lawless state with regard to His Majesty's revenues and the grants of land. The Crown officers are insulted when they demand the quit rents. On a representation to the King of petitioner's proposals of remedy by the appointment of an officer thereto, the Committee of the Privy Council, after favourable report thereon from the Lords of Trade and Plantations, approved thereof, but directed no report to be made to the King in Council till petitioner inform the Committee how he desires to be paid and what amount, as said officer. Thinks this a matter for decision by the Treasury. In 1712 Mr. Nicholson was appointed such a Commissioner to enquire into the state of affairs in America.
Minuted as under date 15 August, infra. 3 pages.
Appending:—(a.) A short state of the many frauds and abuses committed in the time of and under the Lords Proprietors in South and North Carolina with respect to the grants of lands and the quit rents thereon. 3 pages.
(b.) A short state of the many difficulties and inconveniences the Crown labour under with respect to their lands in South and North Carolina, and the quit rents arising therefrom on account of the Royal instructions not having been duly observed. 4 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVIII. No. 38.] |
Aug. 15.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
104. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Wilmington.
The pension of 1,600l. per an., payable to George Hamilton at the Exchequer during pleasure, is to be determined from the day of the death of George Baillie of Jerviswood, Esq. Order for a proper warrant accordingly.
Orders for the following issues out of the Civil List Revenues: — |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
To the Cofferer of the Household, in part of 16,570l. for 1738, Lady Day quarter |
6,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Gentlemen and Grooms of the Bedchamber, same quarter |
4,150 |
0 |
0 |
|
To the Attorney General |
226 |
6 |
2 |
|
To the Solicitor General |
185 |
10 |
0 |
|
To Mr. Lowther |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
A memorial from the Board of Works of this day for making a new fence for the fruit trees in Mastrick [Maestricht] at Windsor and for new planting thereof, read and agreed to at the estimate of 465l. for the fence and 120l. for the planting.
“My Lords, on reading Henry McCulloch's petition to be employed for the improvement of the revenues in North and South Carolina, submitting the salary for himself and clerks to their Lordships, do say the business to which the said petition relates lies undetermined before the Council, and is not properly before their Lordships to take cognizance thereof till that be done.”
Simon Smith's petition for reward for his schemes laid before the Commissioners for Trade for preventing the running of wool from England and Ireland read and sent to Mr. Thomas Hill to be laid before the Board of Trade.
Sir Richard Lane is acquainted that his son must pay into the Exchequer 1,625l. for arrears of House duty before their Lordships will sign the commission continuing him Receiver of Taxes for Worcestershire for 1738.
The letter of the 8th instant from the Board of Ordnance for 424l. 2s. 6d. out of Minorca revenues to pay for bedding supplied to Anstruther's regiment at Gibraltar on their going to Minorca, to be transmitted to Mr. Finch, the Receiver of those revenues, to let their Lordships know a state of the said revenues, with the charge thereupon, and whether this expense can be defrayed out of the same.
Order for the following issues to the Treasurer of the Navy, out of supplies anno 1738: — |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
For 1738 [sic for 1737], Christmas quarter, to the Yards |
48,316 |
0 |
0 |
|
For half-pay to sea officers and pensions to superannuated sea officers, due June 30 last |
20,560 |
0 |
0 |
|
For officers, labourers, &c., of the Victualling 1737, Christmas quarter |
4,297 |
15 |
0 |
|
For necessary money and contingencies |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 89–90; Letter Book XIX. p. 478–9.] |
| Aug. 15. |
105. Petition to the Treasury from Edward Robinson. Sets forth that for many years he has kept the British Coffee House in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, and by that means is proprietor of the staircase leading into the Court of Requests, which he has at his own expense maintained with a lamp for ten years past for the accommodation of the members of both Houses of Parliament, and kept same in repair without ever receiving any consideration for the lighting, cleaning and repairing said staircase. Prays a reward for same.
Referred to the Board of Works.
[Reference Book X. p. 113.] |
| Aug. 17. |
106. Warrant under the royal sign manual to the Lords of the Treasury, establishing a sum of 2,580l. per an., as payable by the Paymaster of the Works to Samuel Milward, appointed chief gardener of the Royal Gardens at St. James's and Kensington (said Gardens being severed from the rest of the Royal Gardens from the death of the late Charles Bridgman, Royal Gardener), said sum to be for the upholding and keeping of the said Royal Gardens at St. James's and Kensington, being in all 172 acres at 15l. per acre.
Appending:—A scheme for the said Royal Gardens at St. James's and Kensington and an account of the totals and materials, &c., by way of agreement or contract, signed and accepted by Samuel Milward 12 August 1738.
[King's Warrant Book XXXIII. pp. 92–5.] |
107.Same to same, similarly establishing 1,107l. 6s. per an., payable by same to George Lowe, chief Gardener at Hampton Court, being 73a. 3r. 11p. at 15l. per acre.
Appending:—Scheme and agreement, as above, accepted by George Lowe 1738, August 12. [Ibid. pp. 96–9.] |
108.Same to same, similarly establishing 102l. 15s. per an., payable by same to John Kent, chief Gardener of the Royal Gardens at Windsor and Newmarket, being 6a. 3r. 16p. at 15l. per acre.
Appending:—Scheme and agreement, as above, accepted by John Kent 1738, August 12. [Ibid. pp. 106–9.] |
|
109. Royal sign manual to Richard Arundell, Esq., Master and Worker of the Mint at the Tower, authorising him to carry on and execute the business of receiving and coining copper halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of England, in accordance with the terms of the instructions given by the late Queen to John Conduitt, deceased, late Master and Worker of the Mint, by warrant under her royal sign manual of 1729, July 24; and the same for the kingdom of Ireland, conformable to the orders given to said Conduitt under the royal sign manual of 1732–3, January 26. [Ibid. p. 100.] |
| Aug. 18. |
110. Warrant under the royal sign manual to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to issue the necessary orders to the Commissioners appointed to take the accounts of the Vice-Treasurers of Ireland to allow upon the said accounts the several exceedings or overdrawings, as below, for the year 1737, Lady Day, to 1738, Lady Day, “as if the same had been paid by particular warrants out of our revenues at large:” care being taken that the payments on the said respective funds, as below, be restrained, so as that the same, if possible, may not exceed the allowances inserted in the establishment for those heads for the future: said exceedings being as follows, viz.:— |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
On the fund called Concordatums [Ireland] |
4,881 |
3 |
9½ |
|
— Military Contingencies |
519 |
11 |
8¾ |
|
— Barracks |
8,408 |
11 |
1½ |
|
[Irish Book IX. pp. 143–4.] |
Aug. 24.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
111. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Order for the following issues to the Treasurer of the Navy, out of supplies anno 1738:— |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
For two months' advance money to new entered men and other services under the head of wages |
10,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
To pay conduct money and other services on the same head |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
For fees at the Exchequer and to the Auditors and other Contingencies of the Pay Office |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 91.] |
[Before
Aug. 28.] |
112. Two papers of extracts of several papers relating to the victualling of General Oglethorpe's regiment in Georgia. 3 and 3 pages.
Minuted as under date August 28, infra.
Appending:—(a.) Sir William Yonge, Secretary at War, to John Scrope, dated Whitehall, 1738, May 23, concerning Thomas Revell's proposal for victualling said regiment.
Minuted 1738, June 27, the same allowance to be made as at Placentia. 1 page.
Enclosing (a.) (I.) Thomas Revell to said Yonge, dated 1738, April 28, forwarding (a.) (I.) (1). 1½ pages.
(a. (I.) (1.) Said proposals by said Revell for victualling said regiment at Georgia for six months. 2 pages.
(a. (I.) (2.) A further note of Revell's concerning the terms of contract for said victualling. 2 pages.
(b.) Tho. Revell, Fran. Eyles and Tho. Brereton, Commissioners of Victualling, to John Scrope, dated Victualling Office, 1738, July 4, forwarding account as in (b.) (I.), with remarks. 2 pages.
Enclosing (b.) (I.) An account, dated Victualling Office, of the quantity and species of the provisions, &c., put on board the transport ships mentioned therein for service of said regiment. 1 sheet.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVIII. No. 41.] |
Aug. 28.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
113. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Order for the issue to the Cofferer of the Household of 5,000l., in further part of 1738. Lady Day quarter.
Same for a sign manual for the issue of 4,000l. to John Selwyn, in further discharge of the late Queen's debts.
Same for the issue, out of public funds anno 1738, of 24,804l. to the Treasurer of the Navy for services specified in his memorial of the 25th instant.
Mr. Whatley is to have 50l., as royal bounty, by the hands of Mr. Lowther.
John Cocks, a riding officer at Fowey, to be a tidesman at Penzance, loco Richard. Greby, deceased; and Francis Arthur, at the recommendation of Mr. Edgcumbe, to succeed Cocks at Fowey.
“It appearing to my Lords, on reading a paper containing the transactions about victualling Col. Oglethorpe's regiment at Georgia, that the Commissioners of the Victualling have sent full provision for six months after their landing there, my Lords agree that the 2d. per man per diem, which is to be the allowance for the future victualling the said regiment, shall commence and be accounted payable to the contractor or others supplying the said regiments with victuals from and after the six months' provisions before mentioned is expended.”
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 92.] |
| Aug. 28. |
114. Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt, the Clerk of the Pells, and the other officers and ministers of the Receipt concerned to issue to the Bank of England 1,000,000l., in part of 1,500,000l., being the remainder of 2,000,000l., which was the amount of certain Exchequer Bills delivered up by the said Bank to be cancelled according to the directions of an Act of 12 George I.: the annuity of 60,000l. per an. for said sum of 1,500,000l. being chargeable on the Aggregate Fund and made redeemable by Parliament; the said repayment of 1,000,000l. as herein, in accordance with the Act of last Session, being to reduce the said annuity of 60,000l. by the redemption of 40,000l. thereof.
[Money Book XXXIX. p. 288.] |
[After
Aug. 28.] |
115. An accompt of receipts and payments by Denzill Onslow, Receiver General of the Post Office, London, for the week August 21–28, 1738. 1 sheet.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVIII. No. 42.] |
| Aug. 29. |
116. The Board of Ordnance to the Treasury concerning the supplying of beds, bolsters and blankets to Brigadier Anstruther's regiment on their leaving Gibraltar for Minorca. Captain Sherman, who formerly furnished the forces in Minorca, informs us that all the other regiments there lie on boards laid on tressels, so that if the above regiment should have such bedsteads as are used in other garrisons it may occasion some disturbance. Propose to send out materials for 290 bedsteads and 580 pairs of sheets for the regiment, to be put together on the spot.
Appending:— (a.) Copy of letters and receipts relating to the delivery of beds, bolsters and blankets by William' Skinner, barrackmaster at Gibraltar, to J. Gilchrist, quartermaster for the use of Anstruther's regiment in June 1738. 1 page.
(b.) H. Finch to J. Scrope, dated 1738, August 20, enclosing (c.) and expressing the opinion that the revenues of Minorca could stand the charge of 425l. 2s. 6d. for the bedding of Anstruther's regiment. 1 page.
(c) A statement of the annual revenues of the island of Minorca and the charge thereupon, (Revenue, 3,952l. 2s. 11¼d.; charge, 2,755l.) 2 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVIII. No. 43.] |
| Aug. 29. |
117. Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer or his deputy to prepare a commission to pass under the Seal of the Exchequer Court for a commission for the admeasuring, weighing, marking and nailing the keels and boats, wains, and carts, waggons, barrows and all other carriages used for carrying coals and loading ships with coals in the ports of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cullercoats, Seaton Sluice, Blyth Nook and all other places, &c., and creeks, &c., in Northumberland and Durham.
Prefixing:—A draft of said commission, together with rules and instructions to be thereunto annexed, to be observed by the Commissioners named in the said commission, said rules being in duplicate form, viz., (1) cancelled, (2) amended.
[Customs Book XIV. pp. 293–304 and 318–25.] |
Aug. 31.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
118. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Orders for the following issues out of the Civil List revenues: — |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
To Viscount Galway |
155 |
12 |
5¾ |
|
To Mr. Ripley, as Surveyor of the King's Private Roads |
97 |
6 |
8 |
|
To the Paymaster of the Works, for Fryar Walker on his contract for keeping and lighting the lamps in the last Session of Parliament |
178 |
3 |
10 |
|
“The Bank of England being at Michaelmas next to receive one million out of the publick funds for the year 1738, that there may therefore be a sufficient number of Exchequer bills printed and prepared to make that issue, let the Auditor of the Receipt know my Lords have agreed that the credit on the land tax for the year 1738 be supplyed as follows”:— |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
Exchequer bills already made forth to be first registered |
200,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Loans already made |
78,600 |
0 |
0 |
|
Exchequer bills to be made forth |
521,400 |
0 |
0 |
|
Loans to be made |
83,300 |
0 |
0 |
|
Exchequer bills to be made forth |
116,700 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£1,000,000 |
0 |
0 |
Write to the Board of Works to cause the King's Garden at Richmond to be surveyed and measured, distinguishing in the admeasurement the ground to be kept in fine order from the grounds requiring no such keeping.
On reading the letter of the 29th instant from the Board of Ordnance their Lordships agree to the said Board's providing materials necessary for 290 bedsteads for Anstruther's regiment at Minorca, together with 580 pairs of sheets, and to the sending same on board the ship now bound for that place, consigned to the Governor there: the charge thereof, 623l. 9s. 2d., to be paid out of the revenues of Minorca by the Receiver thereof, together with the 424l. 2s. 6d. for beds, bolsters and blankets already supplied to said regiment.
“My Lords direct the Commissioners of Taxes to acquaint Mr. Woolaston that if he does not forthwith pay the money that appears to be in his hands an extent will be taken out against him and his securities. Their Lordships also direct the said Commissioners to acquaint Mr. Lane with their determination to appoint another Receiver for the county of Worcester if the public money that appears to be in his and his father's hands be not paid into the Exchequer on or before Tuesday se'night.”
“My Lords read former minutes made on the proposicon of Giles Brown about discovering money due to the publick (a reward being first secured to him upon what shall be recovered and received thereby), and the said Giles Brown attending with another person concerned they were both called in, and after being heard were told my Lords adhere to their former minutes, and unless their propositions are better explained, so as my Lords may know where to referr them to be properly examined into and reported, they shall not alter the same.”
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. pp. 93–4; Letter Book XIX pp. 479–80.] |
